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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2052
- IMDb #2499
- Rotten Tomatoes #1643
- Metacritic #1210
- Letterboxd #2057
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1156
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2515
- Metacritic Critics #701
- Metacritic Audience #2607
- Kinopoisk #3862
- AlloCiné #3702
- Trakt #3623
Every rating
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 84, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A drifter and ex-convict moves in with an old friend and her brother. He casually reveals his hobby of murder to his impressionable roommate. The two men begin to roam the city together, committing random acts of extreme violence, which they coolly document on a camcorder, dragging the brother's sister into their horrifying world.
Details
- Director
- John McNaughton
- Writers
- John McNaughton, Richard Fire
- Released
- 24 September 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $111.0K
- Box office
- $609.9K
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award 1990 | Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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1 awards — Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
×| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |